[Bf-committers] Proposal - new meeting schedule for 2016
Ton Roosendaal
ton at blender.org
Thu Dec 31 17:21:22 CET 2015
Hi Nicholas,
This seems to only work for New York time?
I was studying on a nice simple diagram too. Nice to look at in a couple of days.
Just for now - next meeting is on the 9th at 10 AM Los Angeles time.
And a happy 2016 for everyone!
-Ton-
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Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands
> On 30 Dec, 2015, at 21:13, Nicholas Rishel <rishel.nick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since the new schedule isn't as predictable as weekly on a Sunday I spun up
> a quick Google Calendar
> <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cqqj4ohm2oaeceenhmghbf28t8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York>
> .
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:16 PM xglasyliax . <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello folks.
>>
>> I haven't actively done any coding for Blender since Tears of Steel, so
>> perhaps I'm more well known as the FreeBSD build guy.
>>
>> One of the major difficulties I faced while trying to code anything
>> significant to Blender was in fact the time zone issue. (I'm in the same
>> timezone as Chicago, IL USA)
>>
>> Weekly meetings were/are always during Church for me, so I was never to
>> attend them. It also proved difficult that during my most free/productive
>> "after work" hours, many of the devs were no longer available via IRC due
>> to it being middle of the night for the bulk of them. I distinctly recall
>> it being tough enough that when Campbell took over for me the coding of a
>> part I was working on, it came as nothing but a huge relief. This was due
>> to my inability to discuss things during hours conducive to the majority of
>> devs. Perhaps that was partially just my limited view of the times, and my
>> lack of knowledge of who I could ask questions to about certain parts of
>> code, but it was a real difficulty for me.
>>
>> So, now we get this very exciting email about meeting rotation...
>>
>> Being able to attend weekly/bi-weekly meetings would be wonderful! This new
>> schedule would be a big difference maker for me personally, and it's the
>> most exciting email (for me) in the bf-commiters mail in a long time. I do
>> read them all, and long for the days when I was helping contribute to
>> Blender something more significant than compiling a binary every once in a
>> while.
>>
>> Thank you Ton and the Blender community.
>>
>> 2015-12-29 13:00 GMT-06:00 Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>:
>>
>>> Yep, also for trying that, sounds more fair for non-european people! :)
>>>
>>> Le 29/12/2015 19:18, Ton Roosendaal a écrit :
>>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>>
>>>> Super! Let's wait a day for more feedback, but it looks like most
>> people
>>> are into trying this.
>>>>
>>>> -Ton-
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org
>>>> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
>>>> Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Dec, 2015, at 15:34, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at cgcookie.com
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I quite like this plan. It may prove to be a bit difficult to keep
>>> track of the shifting meeting times, but if only joining two a month then
>>> it wouldn't be too bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would certainly make it easier for a lot of people to join at least
>>> the one in their region.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm happy to chair the LA meeting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a fun diagram comparing local times on 5 places in the world.
>>>>>> Easy to see how it's impossible to define a meeting time where
>>> everyone can attend.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>> http://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner-times.aspx?&L0=US-CA&Day=29&Mon=12&Y=2015&L1=US-NY&L2=NL&L3=IN&L4=AU-NSW&L5=&L6=&L7=
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Ton-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (And sorry for typos in my mail, I didn't check it well before
>> sending)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org
>>>>>> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
>>>>>> Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 29 Dec, 2015, at 13:14, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you look at the Developer Top 22 I posted, you can see that
>>> Blender lacks active contributors from the Americas... Canada, USA,
>> Centra
>>> and South America are not represented as much it could.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For that reason I would propse to test a new meeting schedule for
>>> 2016. A fun rotating schedule.
>>>>>>> At least try it a month!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The meeting concept is based on these simple assumptions:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Have less meetings, two per month should be enough to attend.
>>>>>>> - Cluster time zones in three sections - LA, Amsterdam, Sydney
>>>>>>> - For each time zone section, we organize one meeting per month at a
>>> fixed day at 10 AM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These 10 AM meetings would be:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - LA: 9th of month
>>>>>>> - AMS: 18th of month
>>>>>>> - SYD: 27th of month.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These times are fixed, local, and stay same independent of daylight
>>> savings. Attendants in other timezones will have to check what's the
>>> matching local time in order to attend.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For January, the timing table then looks as follows:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jEooASg01BMply2DrI19-KDo62YQ4c_UAboH8-1oCMQ/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would also like to invite one of the active Americans to chair the
>>> monthly "LA time" meeting.
>>>>>>> Jonathan Williamson, would you be available? I can backup :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Ton-
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org
>>>>>>> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
>>>>>>> Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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